Triphenylene-based side chain liquid crystalline block copolymers containing a PEG block: controlled synthesis, microphase structures evolution and their interplay …

B Wu, B Mu, S Wang, J Duan, J Fang, R Cheng…

Index: Wu, Bin; Mu, Bin; Wang, Sai; Duan, Junfei; Fang, Jianglin; Cheng, Rongshi; Chen, Dongzhong Macromolecules, 2013 , vol. 46, # 8 p. 2916 - 2929

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Abstract

Triphenylene (TP) derivatives are typical and probably the most widely studied discotic liquid crystalline (DLC) materials. Through polymer analogous reactions to attach TP mesogens to the well-synthesized poly (ethylene glycol)-b-poly (2-hydroxyethyl acrylate)(PEG–PHEA) by ATRP, a series of well-defined side chain DLC diblock copolymers PEG–poly (TPm)(m= 6 or 10) with DLC block weight fraction (fw, DLC) ranging from 37% ...